Just as well, as he is hired by the mysterious Shen (Zhang) to retrieve the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from the bowels of a deep, dark prison known as The Devil’s Station. Ray Breslin (Stallone) still runs his high tech security business but, along with testing the viability of inescapable prisons, his team has moved into the kidnap retrieval business also. Stallone returns once again for a third go around, and while still not as good as the original, Escape Plan 3 is leaps and bounds ahead of Part 2 and a bone crunching action film in its own right. A follow up appeared last year, again with Stallone buts sans Schwarzenegger, but the less said about that poorly edited mess the better. It was a well produced flick, often inventive in the way its protagonist out-smarted his adversaries and ultimately escaped a high tech prison. The original Escape Plan was a solid Stallone vehicle nicely mixing the prison thriller genre with some bruising action, which paired the star with another 80s legend in Arnold Schwarzenegger. Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, 50 Cent, Jin Zhang, Harry Shum Jr, Devon Sawa, Jamie King, Russell Wong, Daniel Bernhardt Rappler.Screenplay: Miles Chapman & John Herzfeld While there is action, it is too late, too few, and too unremarkable to make any dent. It is that it is a very lousy and lazy slave, one that surrenders to the fact that it is subservient to unoriginality so it just goes through the motions of delivering something that lacks any lust and luster. The problem with Escape Plan 3 is not that it is a slave to formula. To add insult to injury, the talk is mostly expository than compelling, more a means to move forward a plot in the most convenient of ways than a manner to enrich the experience. The film attempts to excite with a roster of action stars that promises great things, then it severely under-delivers, with the likes of Stallone and Dave Bautista doing almost nothing to raise the stakes. There is definitely a greater dose of brutality here but the intensity of the action is just not there. Unfortunately, the film relies on cliché and repetition. It has all the boors and the biceps to inspire either the rawest or the most bombastic of explosions and fistfights. However, Escape Plan 3, even without that very curious set-up, feels more like an inutile display of muscles than an inventive piece of action cinema. The film somewhat reeks of inelegant propaganda. There is politics here that sadly, the film unsurprisingly did not pursue, turning it into an odd thread that leads minds to question whether or not Escape Plan 3 and its unabashedly brash methods for entertainment are meant for things beyond escapist diversions.
Sure, the film is bankrolled by many Chinese investors, but there is definitely some discourse to be had in a set-up that involves an American city who clings to the Chinese for economic salvation. Still, the entry of Chinese elements into the narrative doesn’t seem like it was done in a whim. Then the film suddenly flexes its affiliation for action, when Daya (Melise), the daughter of a wealthy Chinese businessman is kidnapped by thugs, predictably resulting in the team of Ray Breslin (Sylvester Stallone), along with the former lover turned bodyguard (Harry Shum, Jr.) of Daya, staging the titular escape plan for the kidnap victims. It feels like it is a film that has a heart that bleeds for America’s disenfranchised, the populace who have become so affected by the gradual collapse of their country’s economy. Images of the sorry state of Middle America litter the screen during first few minutes of the film.Įscape Plan 3 starts out like it never had the intention of being an actioner.
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Its eventual descent into just another movie that panders to a dated concept of machismo feels like a gross betrayal – even if there was never really a chance that this low-budgeted third entry to the formula-reliant action franchise would shift its goal of being brainless and brutish entertainment. John Herzfeld’s Escape Plan 3 opens with such unabashed realism.
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